Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Sipsey Street is now on Facebook!

Hide your kids! Hide your wives! Hide the silverware! We're taking social media by storm, folks! It is still pretty paltry over there but head on over and give us some love. We just might give some back.

Facebook is not your friend. The fact that you promote and endorse these kinds of things means you do not see it as an issue and that's kind of alarming for a site such as Sipsey Street Irregulars. The First Amendment protects all the others and Facebook does not promote First Amendment freedom.

Sadly, Matthew, this is a big enough issue for me that I will likely be reducing my visits here drastically, or I will quit coming here altogether. Just like I don't go to Starbucks anymore because they do not allow CCW holders to carry in their stores.

I refuse to feed those that would hurt me. You would do well to follow that advice also.

Matt, I don't use either Facebook or Twitter. Or Instagram or any other type of social networking product. I suspect many of us don't. It's a personal choice not to support that dweeb zuckerberg or others like him.

I understand that your generation may not see it that way. Perhaps you will open a few eyes by going where people younger than us geezers here spend time. I hope so. Facebook and Twitter tend to censor anyone who departs from socialist ideas though, so if you collect enough friends you will be censored. Expect it.

Man, look at all the Debbie Downers. If you don't use Facebook, awesome. If you do use Facebook, awesome. If I lose readers because of it, that sucks but if that is your "beyond the pale", I would have lost you anyway. If the III% grows because of a bigger audience, that is out=freaking-standing for obvious reasons. I am really quite puzzled how this became a point of contention.

Facebook is not for reporting troop movements. For that matter neither is Sipsey Street. You will not find anything here or there that is not opensource and unclassified. No, Sipsey will certainly not look like it has in the past. If it looks the same in a year from now, I should be absolutely embarrassed because I have not done my job in developing myself into something better.

I sincerely hope you come with me for the ride. If not, I'll see you down the road.

I have a suggestion, Matthew. Google "marine arrested for facebook post" and you'll see why most of Mike's (now your) readership doesn't trust Sucksberg and his little intel-gathering site. Even BlogSpot is risky since Google took it over, but at least they don't force you to use your real identity/email to login and comment.-MM

Stand your ground! If you choose to post on facebook, twitter or any social media that you choose, GOOD FOR YOU!It will help reach people who do not know of the great fight your father led! It exposes our message to the younger in our society, not just the old bastards on this page (myself included)!

I am on both fb & twitter, and I spread the 2A word as much as possible (45,000 on FB and my growing twitter account @The2ndA has over 1200 now)Good luck!

SSI is where I hang my hat. Draw my sustenance. I am never leaving.I don't like the mind set of most of the liberal unwashed masses on FB.I don't even use Google. If that FB platform draws more like minded Patriots .So be it. AAA/O 11B20. .Behind enemy lines ,Ct.

It IS rather bee-zarr that some folks are acting as if Matt is going to totally shut down the blog and work only on FB. That is quite an absurd thought process. I think that no one here will be forced, bribed or blackmailed into using FB or any other service they don't like. Matthew is NOT 'promoting" Zucky's vehicle. He IS using every available resource to spread the three per cent message. Years ago, when my Dad was young, many old time radio preachers feared competition when that ther nere TV thank was introduced! Fearing that they might lose some of their own donors, the radio preachers talked about how the TV antenna were the Devil's horns and the people who watched the Gospel on TV would burn in Hayull. But no war has ever been won by having all the people draw together in a small group huddled in a fortress and hoping the barbarians could not take over.... only when one force learns strategy and engages the enemy oh their own ground, can victory be obtained. Check out Sun Tzu some time. Fear not - You can still read this blog if you are familiar with these interwebz thangs... and if there are any family members who use FB, and who would NEVER go to this blog. maybe they will stumble into a nugget of truth over at the FaceBook page.

Stand your ground! If you choose to post on facebook, twitter or any social media that you choose, GOOD FOR YOU!It will help reach people who do not know of the great fight your father led! It exposes our message to the younger in our society, not just the old bastards on this page (myself included)!

I am on both fb & twitter, and I spread the 2A word as much as possible (45,000 on FB and my growing twitter account @The2ndA has over 1k now.)

It is certainly true that everything on facebook is completely open to government agencies with very limited procedural barriers, even if it is 'deleted' or hidden from public view. It thus should never be used for anything you want to hide.

But a good part of our fight lies in convincing those who would serve tyranny if it looked like a winning proposition that it is instead a dangerous and costly path. Every agent of the government that comes across my posts on facebook has cause to reflect on whether everyone will meekly bow before the might of the government...and the more such profiles are active, the more that question leads to the question of whether the might of government will prove sufficient to suppress by force all those unwilling to submit.

I've also occasionally seen evidence that it is not just fear for the consequences for themselves, but sorrow for the outcome of resolving reasonable disputes by force (though of course much of this might be concern trolling). If I can write some things that are, on the one hand, clearly beyond the range of public opinion that can be tolerated by tyrants, but, on the other, also appeal to the native reason of those currently "just following orders", I may at least cause them to carry out their orders less efficiently due to the mental conflict aroused. Of course, those are both moving targets, and vary by individual perception as well as alterations in the Zeitgeist. But I cast a wide net.

A few hundred profiles, each posting a more narrowly focused thesis, may still cast a wider net than anyone could alone.

On the other hand, facebook can be a huge time sink, and studies demonstrate that it has addictive properties (probably intentionally designed). The temptation to use it as a way to virtually satisfy needs for ego affirmation is evidently pervasive and strong (which is odd because such virtual satisfaction provides little benefit in terms of real gains in self-confidence). I don't blame anyone for not wishing to engage with it. There are often more important uses for one's time, I dropped facebook for a time to focus on preparations a while back, ended up not having any reason to reengage for over a year. I don't see that as a giant missed opportunity or anything. I can't see how it would be a firm moral imperative to join if you're not into it.

Matthew, you are absolutely correct to expand Sipsey Street onto Facebook. That's where you need to be to reach the greatest number of Americans most effectively with the III% message of Sipsey Street. Time is running short for liberty; it has to be defended vigorously in the public square, and Facebook is a huge chunk of America's public square.

Yeah, on one hand, FB is fed-funded, fed-backdoored, and gives them a ready-made map of your personal network.

On the other hand, I doubt any of you complaining about this site having a FB presence are currently using a burner laptop that has never been co-located with your cell phone and accessing this site via TAILS live CD over an open wifi far away from all your usual haunts, so if they really want you, they already have you. May as well take the message to the masses. Hell, just by commenting on here instead of just quietly reading, you may as well commit yourself to the propaganda wing instead of the rifle team.

But if they can't stop a radicalized Pakistani couple from lighting up a special-kids facility in California, you think they're really doing much about Elmer in Podunk, Iowa blowing off steam on here? Your IP will be logged into the big Utah data center along with your sister's nudie pics, and if some day you decide to go Leroy Jenkins on everyone, they'll say "the shooter was known to federal law enforcement" and that'll be about the end of it.

The BLOG is on a GOOGLE server. IT has been watched, scanned, categorized and parsed in ways you can't imagine.

You're worried about FACEBOOK??

Better didi from the world, man, and hide your silly ass in a cave in the Nam. There are ways to mask your ID on FB from the user base. Concerns over admin access are just dumb ass, when comparing THOSE to HERE because top dogs at both operations work the same way. They don't care one shit about YOU personally, but will hand over what the man ain't already got just as soon as the info request goat fuck gets a humpin.

Have you ever given a damning deposition against yourself? Open a Facebook account, and that's exactly what you do, plus help them to build a complete mental profile for them to work off of for predictive/ pre-crime engineering. I will never be on Facebook, twitter or any of the current trendy "social media" venues. Even the comment boards are too revealing. But OPSEC is not just about revealing operational information, as intelligence is not about just the 5 W's gathering either. If I can build an understanding of your mindset, your thinking patterns and your decision points through observation, I can think 3 steps ahead of you. that's what your ABC agencies are doing with "high profile" and "high value" targets within the opposition ranks. But to each their own. good luck with that.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.